Post by Kiwi Frontline on Sept 15, 2023 5:08:48 GMT 12
COLONISATION HAD 'POSITIVE IMPACT': INDIGENOUS SENATOR
Opposition Indigenous Australians spokeswoman Jacinta Nampijinpa Price on Thursday delivered a National Press Club speech in Canberra setting out her argument against having an advisory body enshrined in the constitution.
Asked if she accepted that trauma sparked by colonisation had been passed down between generations of Indigenous Australians, Senator Price rejected the idea.
"That would mean that those of us whose ancestors were dispossessed of their own country and brought here in chains as convicts are also suffering from intergenerational trauma," she said.
"So I should be doubly suffering."
Senator Price said colonisation had delivered many benefits......
nz.news.yahoo.com/indigenous-voice-critic-points-better-173000842.html
Opposition Indigenous Australians spokeswoman Jacinta Nampijinpa Price on Thursday delivered a National Press Club speech in Canberra setting out her argument against having an advisory body enshrined in the constitution.
Asked if she accepted that trauma sparked by colonisation had been passed down between generations of Indigenous Australians, Senator Price rejected the idea.
"That would mean that those of us whose ancestors were dispossessed of their own country and brought here in chains as convicts are also suffering from intergenerational trauma," she said.
"So I should be doubly suffering."
Senator Price said colonisation had delivered many benefits......
nz.news.yahoo.com/indigenous-voice-critic-points-better-173000842.html